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Landscaping costs

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  • 21-03-2012 12:44am
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    jayo99
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    Hi Guys,

    I built a few years ago but never got round to the landscaping and now the area has become overgrown with thistles/nettles and dock leaves. Ideally I would like the area rotovated, leveled and planted with lawn seed. However my percolation area occupies a large area of the site and I would be wary about a tractor driving over it and upsetting my pipework.

    The area is about 10,000 sqFt and I am based in the kildare area .. Any ideas how much I'm looking at paying or how much a similar project cost you?


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    paddy147
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    jayo99 wrote: »
    Hi Guys,

    I built a few years ago but never got round to the landscaping and now the area has become overgrown with thistles/nettles and dock leaves. Ideally I would like the area rotovated, leveled and planted with lawn seed. However my percolation area occupies a large area of the site and I would be wary about a tractor driving over it and upsetting my pipework.

    The area is about 10,000 sqFt and I am based in the kildare area .. Any ideas how much I'm looking at paying or how much a similar project cost you?


    Thats about 929 square meters of an area then.


    You can hire out large self propelled/geared petrol powered hydraulic rotivators for about 70-80 euro a day (Sam Hire and JW Hire Shops).

    Very good and a fraction of the weight of a tractor.

    Thats one option for you,if you are worried about weight of a tractor and also keeping down the overall costs (do it yourself).:)


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    jayo99
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    Paddy, a rotovator is not an option.. While it may be an option for the percolation area it wont do for the remainder of the site. I hired one already and when the guy delivered he tested it and the ground was too hard for the rotovator to break up.. It bounced across the surface :(


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    paddy147
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    jayo99 wrote: »
    Paddy, a rotovator is not an option.. While it may be an option for the percolation area it wont do for the remainder of the site. I hired one already and when the guy delivered he tested it and the ground was too hard for the rotovator to break up.. It bounced across the surface :(


    I wasnt aware (until reading it now) of the ground being too hard for a rotivator.Sorry to hear that.

    What about possibly spraying the site with the likes of roundup or brushwood killer,similar and leaving it for a few weeks?This would kill off the thistles ,nettles and otherweeds.


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    ymurtagh
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    hope this helps , local kildare guy, http://www.adverts.ie/home-services/mini-digger-and-driver-hire/1257512, small mini digger to loosen ground and strong rotavator but small and big enough at same time to do area of that size


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